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Hands-on tree and understory plant care, pruning & mulching workshop Saturday, June 28, 2025 – Tucson, AZ
Starts at 6am
We start early to beat the heat.
Stay as long as you can or want.
We plan to be wrapped up with the supervised pruning in the neighborhood by 9am
Cost: $5 suggested donation, though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Where: We’ll start in the public right-of-way beside the old Dunbar Garden space (NW corner of 11th Ave and University Blvd). Tucson, Arizona, then move to other nearby parts of the neighborhood.
Open to all. Learn how you can organize similar Neighborhood Forester efforts in your neighborhood.
After demonstration we will move to various parts of the neighborhood to get supervised hands-on experience as we help prune native food-bearing trees and shrubs in our neighborhood’s public rights-of-way.
This is an incredible learning opportunity as every six months we revisit and rework areas pruned so we see the effect of our good work and mistakes, thereby enabling us to improve and evolve with the expert guidance from certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon.
Professionals can get continued education credits for the workshop from Aleck.
Instructors:
certified arborist Aleck MacKinnon of the Pedaling Arborist, assisted by Brad Lancaster of the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters.
Bring pruning tools if you have them. We’ll provide for those that don’t.
Also bring water and snacks, and dress (sun hat, gloves, etc.) to be working outdoors in the sun.
Please prune to maintain access to our neighborhood forests and their public paths
See our Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Walkability Study here.
Prune out/remove dead wood from your trees to reduce fire risk
You’ll learn best practices for this in the workshop.
Reuse your prunings & their fertility
Reproduced with permission from “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition” by Brad Lancaster
Reproduced with permission from “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition” by Brad Lancaster
Take advantage of Brush & Bulky pick up
We are scheduling this workshop BEFORE Brush & Bulky pick up, so folks will have plenty of time to apply their learning to do any needed pruning at their homes / blocks, and be able to put the prunings beside the street curb for free pick up by the Brush & Bulky program.
Brush & Bulky pick up in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood is July 21
Brush & Bulky in the West University neighborhood is September 1
For Brush & Bulky pick up in other neighborhoods see here.
Organized by the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters
